Statistical methods for the evaluation of health effects of prenatal mercury exposure

Environmetrics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 105-120

  Budtz Jørgensen, Esben ^a,b   Keiding, Niels ^a   Grandjean, Philippe ^b,c   Weihe, Pal ^b,d   White, Roberta F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d FAROESE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (Faroe Islands)

Author keywords

Confounding; Environmental epidemiology; Measurement error; Multiple endpoints; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; MATERNAL HEALTH; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0242417060     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.569     Document Type: Conference Paper

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